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From the time the lockdown started across the globe, video conferencing platform Zoom witnessed an unprecedented spike in usage. And it made sense, people were working from home and they needed a platform to easily coordinate all those important office meetings, teachers and professors needed to conduct classes and the list goes on. Zoom encashed on this opportunity so well that other video-conferencing platforms like Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp etc started adding features to keep up. These included increasing the number of people allowed to chat at a time, backgrounds etc. Many…

Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) and MyGov in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission, Niti Aayog has announced the Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge for Indian tech entrepreneurs and startups. Working towards the aim of creating an AatmaNirbhar Bharat, this competition will promote existing apps and also help develop new ones. In the first leg that has been launched today the best Indian apps that are already being used by citizens, and appear to have the potential to scale up and become world-class apps in their own categories,…

WhatsApp is finally getting the much-awaited features. The company on Wednesday announced that the Facebook-owned messaging app will finally be getting the Animated Stickers, QR codes, Dark mode for web and desktop, improved video calls, and disappearing status feature for KaiOS. The features will be rolled out for both Android & iOS apps in the coming weeks. Days before its release, Wabetainfo the WhatsApp features tracker, had informed the users that the company is testing the QR codes feature and working on the Animated stickers feature. Another highly anticipated feature…

Desi TikTok rivals like Chingari, Mitron, Bolo Indya and Roposo are seeing huge surge in downloads ever since the ban on TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps. Chingari app registered 500,000 downloads in just 72 hours. Even before the India ban on Chinese apps, homegrown alternatives to TikTok were making news. With the ban in effect these desi TikTok rivals are seeing huge surge in downloads and users. TikTok was massively popular in India especially since it catered to even the smallest places across the country. TikTok has been removed from…